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Akalabeth Groupie Canada Joined 5517 days ago 83 posts - 112 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese
| Message 17 of 19 25 April 2010 at 1:05am | IP Logged |
What method are you using to set it up? And in what OS? Afaik, Windows doesn't support
compose keys (if you're using it), and I don't remember if dead keys are difficult to
set up.
I think the easiest way to do it in Windows might be with combining characters. They
are technically separate characters, but when you put them after another character most
programs render them as if they were one (like, a character will look like 'ĉ', but if
you hit backspace the ˆ would remove, as it's a separate character). The combining
characters you would want to use are U+0302 (combining ˆ) and U+0306 (combining ˇ). In
the example 'ĉ', you
would hit the 'c' first, then whatever key you have designated to U+0302.
There are some disadvantages to doing it this way though. Some fonts render a character
with a combining character following slightly different than using the actual
precomposed Unicode character (Papyrus looks weird iirc). There can also be problems
with pattern matching. Since there's already a precomposed Unicode character for ĉ
(U+0109), some programs won't recognize it as the same as c (U+0063) followed by the
combining character (U+0302).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character for relevant information.
Edited by Akalabeth on 25 April 2010 at 1:06am
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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5334 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona
| Message 18 of 19 25 April 2010 at 3:57am | IP Logged |
Figured it out.
c ĉ
I just hadn't assigned any keys yet as I am unfamiliar with the program. Thank you for
your help everyone.
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| OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6848 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French
| Message 19 of 19 26 April 2010 at 7:43am | IP Logged |
Go buy a Mac. Set your keyboard to US Extended. Use the option key and be amazed at how intuitive it is. ;)
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